Poems Work
In honor of national poetry month (and because it is a peaceful slowly unwinding Monday morning) I typed Poems Work into our SLU Libraries Encore search, and, my goodness, did I get back an interesting list of books. So interesting I did indeed feel motivated to blog out what poems work. Here is a baker’s dozen from this serendipitous phrase:
- Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman edited by Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro
- Work Life: New Poems by Paul Kane
- Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Robert Frost edited by Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro
- Domestic Work: Poems by Natasha Trethewey, selected and introduced by Rita Dove
- What Work Is: Poems by Philip Levine
- Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life & Work of Emily Dickinson edited by Sheila Coghill & Thom Tammaro
- Field work: Poems by Seamus Heaney
- Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed by George Monteiro
- Changing is Not Vanishing: A Collection of early American Indian Poetry to 1930 edited by Robert Dale Parker
- Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry by John Marsh
- The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling edited by Howard J. Booth